When Joe Song was born in 1957, Korea was still reeling
from the damage of the Korean War. Although the fighting in that conflict
had stopped four years earlier, the nation was poverty-stricken, while
Seoul was devastated and virtually undeveloped. Song and his family made
their way to the United States for a better life in 1970, leaving behind
a country Koreans knew as "The Land of the Morning Calm." A
quarter century later in 1996, Song would return to Korea as the senior
manager of McDonnell-Douglas' MD-95 Korea program (which later became
the 717 Korea Program for Boeing) and find Seoul was completely transforming
itself into one of the world's most dynamic cities.

For
the past two years, Perry Beaty and Don Cress have learned the "Boeing
way" and the "Korean way" are as different as fried
chicken and kimchi, the pickled spicy cabbage dish that's a staple
of Korean cuisine.

N.K.
Huh is the president of Hyune Aero-Specialty Inc., a small company
in Busan, South Korea, that provides parts for Boeing airplanes.
Huh tells Boeing Frontiers how his company came to be associated
with Boeing and what this partnership means.